Thursday, December 10, 2009

San Francisco Startups Win Amazon AWS Challenge

Amazon.com has announced the winners of the firm's latest Amazon Web Services Startup-Up Challenge, naming three San Francisco startups as winners in the competition. The competition which was open to startups around the world. Amazon said it awarded $100,000 split between cash and service credits to GoodData, a developer of business intelligence software; $25,000 to runner up Bizo, which develops ad targeting technology; and $5,000 in cash plus $5,000 in credits to Flightcaster, a developer of flight delay predication software. All three are based in San Francisco.